00:00Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to receive an unusually high-profile welcome from U.S. President Donald Trump,
00:08who is set to greet him personally at Joint Base Andrews before a formal ceremony at the White House.
00:15For political analyst Dr. Peter Chang, the gesture goes beyond protocol and reflects how Trump is choosing to engage with
00:23Beijing.
00:26No U.S. President has ever been to the tarmac to welcome another head of state.
00:34This, to me, signals a kind of, in some ways, a respect that President Trump had for presidency.
00:46And then the other thing is that they have already met twice, and this will be the second time.
00:51And in April, in November, they're going to meet in APEC and Shenzhen as well.
00:56So these two leaders have met so many times now, three times in one year.
01:02And it is crucial.
01:03You know, when great powers have locked into intense rivalry such as this,
01:10their leaders, if they do meet like that, that often is crucial to bring some stability to the relationship.
01:17So I think, no matter what, what else people will say about Donald Trump as a global leader,
01:25in terms of the U.S.-China relationship, it is still very intense.
01:29It is still unpredictable in some ways.
01:32But Donald Trump has brought some stability to it in the sense that he has accorded
01:37China and presidency the kind of respect that Beijing wanted, you know.
01:42So he brought out some, he's going to negotiate, he's willing to negotiate with China as a peer,
01:48rather than as a junior partner.
01:50So he's going to negotiate with China as a peer-to-peer.
01:50So he's going to negotiate with China as a peer-to-peer.
01:50So he's going to negotiate with China as a peer-to-peer.
01:50So he's going to negotiate with China as a peer-to-peer.
01:52So he's going to negotiate with China as a peer-to-peer.
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